CLEARWATER, Fla. — You are a young professional in a level-entry position, fighting your way up the ladder, aiming for the top when suddenly you get a call. You are getting a shot from a rival company to take a fast track to your dream job. The catch: You have 45 days to impress the bosses, who have no firsthand knowledge of what your capabilities are.

It’s a lot of pressure, and the natural reaction is to hastily attempt to impress.

Welcome to Kevin Munson’s world.

Munson is the right-handed reliever the Phillies selected in last December’s Rule 5 draft, plucking him from the Diamondbacks’ system in order to give him a shot to make the big-league roster. If the Phillies decide to place him on the 25-man roster to start the season and he can remain there for all of 2014, he is the Phillies’ property. If at any point the Phils decide they can’t afford a raw rookie in their bullpen, he will be offered back to Arizona.

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He made his fourth appearance of the Grapefruit League season in the Phillies’ 11-3 win over a split-squad Astros team Saturday, working 1 2/3 scoreless innings despite walking four batters.

After the outing, pitching coach Bob McClure tried to stress to Munson that the key to making this unique experience pay off is to find a way to detach from the urgency that hovers overhead.

McClure has experience with Rule 5 pitchers. In fact, one of his proudest coaching moments was when he had a raw, 22-year-old right-hander arrive in Royals camp in 2007 after being snatched from the Padres’ system with just 11 appearances with an MLB minor-league affiliate to his name.

“Yeah, I had a Rule 5 kid out of A ball,” McClure said. “We had to take him if we wanted to keep him. Six years later he had (160) saves.”

That guy is Joakim Soria, who took over the closer’s role for the Royals by the midpoint of his rookie year. What McClure remembers about Soria that spring was how calm he was.

“This guy came out of the womb throwing strikes,” he said. “Calmest son of a gun I’ve ever met. It was unbelievable, it really was.

“Seeing that and talking to Munson about it, I said, ‘Hey listen, this is about what you can do if you’ll allow yourself to do it. Don’t try to do more than you can do.’ He’s trying a little too hard right now, so hopefully in the next couple games he’ll kind of settle in a little bit and pound the zone more.”

The intensity Munson has gets him in trouble, but it seems to help him get out of it as well. After walking the first batter he faced Saturday, he got an inning-ending double play grounder. He got the first two outs in the following inning only to load the bases with walks before getting Mexican slugger Japhet Amador to pop out.

“They want to see me go out there and compete and pound the zone, and I’ve been struggling with that a little bit,” Munson said. “I’m going to make some adjustments … They want me to succeed.”

There are minor adjustments Munson is making, things that come up when a player switches organizations. And wildness has been something that had slowed Munson’s minor-league progress and led to his being left off Arizona’s 40-man roster. But McClure believes the tools are there, and there is an opportunity for a right-hander to win a job in the Phillies’ bullpen. There are Jonathan Papelbon, Justin DeFratus and B.J. Rosenberg there, but Mike Adams is behind, and Phillippe Amount looks better than last season, but probably could use time to be consistent. Scott Camp is a veteran option, while Mike Stutes and Luis Garcia were shipped to minor-league camp Saturday morning.

“I tell you, he’s got a real heavy ball, heavy sinker,” McClure said. “It’s a pitch he definitely can use in the big leagues. I think he needs to – and I talked to him about this, so it’s not out of school – he needs to calm down. He’s pretty hyped up. He’s trying too hard, and we talked about that.

“We all did that at one point. I’d like to see him calm down a little bit, get that sinker in the zone and get ahead of hitters and see what happens.”

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The Phillies had their defensive hiccups over the last couple of days – actually, it was more of a loud belch against the Orioles Friday. One person who wasn’t at the center of the circus was Freddy Galvis, who actually had an excuse if he was since he played both days at positions he had never played before.

Friday, Galvis relieved Marlon Byrd in right field. Saturday, he was starting in center. He had plenty of activity, making a couple of catches, and fielding a base hit and hitting a cut-off man.

“I want to see him at all of the positions except pitcher and catcher,” Ryne Sandberg said. “It seems that everywhere I put him, the ball finds him and that’s fine. He’s a guy that gives me a lot of flexibility...”

Galvis, who went 0-for-2 with a walk at the plate, not only enjoys the change of scenery but tends to be more solid at whichever position he’s asked to play than those who have spent a career there.

“I really like it,” Galvis said. “I play baseball. Whatever they tell me to do, I will try to help. Today I’ll be in center. Tomorrow I’ll be at third, short or second.”

Actually, he’ll start at second Sunday in Fort Myers. It’s understandable if it’s tough for him to keep track.

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After going hitless in the first four innings the Phillies finally broke loose with the bats, as Carlos Ruiz and each had two hits, including a homer, and drove in three runs. Asche, in a lineup wrinkle from Sandberg, did so from the leadoff spot.

“Yeah, it gives him maybe a different mindset as the leadoff hitter – quality at-bats, get on base,” Sandberg said of the young third baseman at the top of the lineup. “I thought he hit the ball well to left-center in his first at-bat, and he hit the ball well all day.

“Some offense goes a long way to loosen everyone up. It all started with Asche and some good swings – three good swings, three good at-bats. That was good, to get things going.”

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In addition to Stutes and Garcia, the Phillies reassigned outfielders Aaron Altherr, Kelly Dugan and Leandro Castro, catcher Sebastian Valle and top pitching prospect Jesse Biddle to the minors.

“I thought he handled himself very well,” Sandberg said of Biddle. “He’s a young professional already. I know he had a good experience as far as getting a taste of it. He’ll go down and start to build up for starts and more innings, work on some things.”

Biddle allowed two runs in an inning of work against the Astros and battled control all spring.

“Obviously you want to strike everyone out and show up every time out there,” Biddle said. “But I felt great … Whether or not, I had success, I felt really good today. My mechanics are getting better and better. There are little things in my mind that are clicking and reminding me that I can have some success at this level.